Job Description
Villanova University
Senior Research Technician
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| Posting Number: | 20260156S |
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| Position Title: | Senior Research Technician |
| Position Type: | Staff |
| Location: | Villanova, PA |
| Recruitment Type: | Internal/External Applicants |
| Work Schedule: | full-time/12-months |
| Avg Hours Week | |
| Department: | 186-Physics |
| Position Summary: | Why work at Villanova?
This position is in direct support of a NASA grant to develop a data pipeline for far-infrared polarimetry data. The employee will work with the team members both at Villanova and at collaborating institutions and will take the primary role developing the software. It is anticipated that the employee will also contribute to publication and dissemination of the knowledge gained from the effort. Villanova is a Catholic university sponsored by the Augustinian Order. The University is an equal opportunity employer and seeks candidates who understand, respect and can contribute to the University’s mission and values. |
| Duties and Responsibilities: | Code development- development of software simulator for HAWC+/SOFIA data and adaption of existing publicly-available analysis code for the HAWC+/SOFIA Galactic center data set. Code documentation and paper writing. The code will be made publicly-available, so good repository practices will have to be followed. This entails providing clear documentation (likely to a NASA data center) and a well-curated Github online repository. The results of the new data reduction will also be published in a peer-reviewed journal, and it is expected that the employee will play a major role in this as well. Meetings with team members to clarify work and define tasks. |
| Minimum Qualifications: | Formal Education
Minimum Work Experience
Specific Job Knowledge
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| Preferred Qualifications: | Familiarity with FITS file formats, Astropy |
| Physical Requirements and/or Unusual Work Hours: | |
| Special Message to Applicants: | |
| Posting Date: | 04/23/2026 |
| Closing Date (11:59pm ET): | |
| Salary Posting Information: | This position falls within salaried grade 12 and the range is $47,500-56,900. The final salary will be determined with consideration of several factors including the selected candidate’s qualifications, department budget availability, market data, and internal equity. |
| Salary Grade: | 12 |
| Job Classification: | exempt |
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| Minimum Number of References Needed | 3 |
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| Maximum Number of References Needed | 3 |
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